Noctua NF-A8 PWM, Premium Quiet Fan, 4-Pin (80mm, Brown)

Great quality at a fair price!!

I put these in the back wall of a 4U Supermicro 846 chassis and they are quieter at full tilt than the stock fans ramped down. To make up for the lack of air flow I have three 140mm Noctua industrial fans installed on the front. I can now sit three feet away and not need ear plugs. These fans are known as the best for a reason.

Tested them out of the box, very quite. Have not installed them in their final location yet. Plan to use them with a thermally controlled PWM control board to cool condenser in my motor home refrigerator.

I bought a Dell 3880 and its a great little system... EXCEPT THE CPU FAN IS TOO NOISY. If youre in a quiet environment then you will almost certainly notice the noise.

Perfectly silent fans -- good airflow.

Nice fan well made. Very quiet.

These 80mm fans have to be the quietest 80mms I have ever used. You could put these in an old PC power supply from the 90s and the computer would become immediately silent, especially if you use the low noise adapter. Compared to the A12, the A8 is a whisper.

Replaced the fan in an Icom IC-7300 HF radio. Was easy to do (thank you, YouTube) and works quite the treat. I keep an eye on my radios temp while sending. But so far, even though it moves less CFM, been well pleased.

The Fan that’s missing in all the Alienware Aurora chassis design from r1-r12. The inside haven’t changed. Still lacking air cooling and only room for 1 liquid cooling radiator 120mm. If u running SLI you can’t install liquid cool gpu and ur gpu are literally facing the bottom of the case with no room for air. Only 1 fan is facing the back side of the GPU and that’s the front fan. One of the only 2 fans in this compacted case. They do come standard with up to 3000+rpm fans which is pretty impressive I give them that. But the noise is unbearable at that fan speed. So I switched it to noctua front Fans and got a bit more quiet but not much since I don’t spin the rpm high on the older ones anyways which doesn’t make much noise when it is t spinning crazy anyways, anyways I notice the side panels has ventilations on it and even seems like holes for you to mount a fan. So I bought one of these small 80mm fans to try it out and it worked it was pretty easy disconnect the metal chassis from the plastic cover it, a single clip like mechanism in the center held the entire thing together, ones I unlock the clip I just push and slide the metal plate off the plastic panel from the Aurora and begin installing the fan, funny thing is tho, ones I installed it I realized there is no extra 4 pins fan headers for u to plug in an extra fan unless u want to use the CPU fan header for the side panel fan or put the pump fan to the cpu header and then put the side panel fan to the pump fan, neither option was appealing to me, so I went to secret option number 3, I use the Y cable that came with the noctua 80mm pwn fan and plug my front fan and the side panel fan into it and use the front fan header since they fairly same location of the case and both noctua fans I figure it won’t be too big of a problem fingers crossed and it worked. Even tho they are different sizes and different RPM rating. Lol anyways check out the temp difference. I’m pretty happy with the mod I did on it, almost felt like Alienware should’ve included it from the begining. Also I think there is enough room to fit another 120mm liquid cooler in the front fan spot with a bit of dremel work u can cut out some of the excess metal chassis and some of the plastic in the front. That way u can liquid cool ur gpu and your cpu. I’m thinking I might do that one day just for fun. I don’t even play games on my computer now. I just like taking it apart and changing pc parts left and right just for fun and performance. Anyways yeah if u have an Aurora, get one of these, it’s good.

Very good!!